The Amazon is one of Earth’s greatest treasures: home to unparalleled biodiversity and ancient cultures, and essential to the regulation of the global climate. Protecting it is not just a local mission, but a shared responsibility of all humanity. By supporting the Calanoa Foundation, you join a living movement that safeguards this sacred region and its peoples.
For the past 14 years, the Calanoa Amazonas Foundation has played a key role in conserving the biological and cultural diversity of the Colombian Amazon, particularly in indigenous territories along the borders with Peru and Brazil. Its initiatives have benefited the Tikuna, Cocama, Huitoto, Yagua and Kamentza communities, combining environmental education, sustainable economic development, and the preservation of ancestral knowledge and cultural traditions. These efforts support the well-being of the territory and empower indigenous communities to thrive while protecting their natural and cultural heritage. By visiting Calanoa, you contribute to our projects.
When the Calanoa project first arrived in the Amazon Trapezium, it faced a range of urgent socio-cultural and environmental challenges. Local communities depended on the sale of natural resources due to the lack of economic alternatives, and the forest was being burned and cleared for cattle grazing. This deforestation, along with poor waste and garbage management along the Amazon River, has been degrading the environment.
In response, Calanoa launched a responsible tourism initiative that transformed the local economy. This project generates new jobs, directly and indirectly benefiting around 100 families in the region. With this economic shift, communities gained a tangible incentive to protect their land, revitalize their cultural traditions, and showcase to visitors the ecosystems they have helped restore. As a result, the project earned community support, fostering pride both in environmental protection and cultural preservation.
The Calanoa Foundation supports Amazonian communities in protecting biodiversity through projects in education, cultural revitalization, and regenerative development.🌱
Through the Promotion of Traditional Art and the recovery of basketry, pottery, and wood carving techniques, local art is then sold at the Calanoa Shop.
At the Calanoa Foundation, we firmly believe that fostering these projects in the Amazon — through traditional knowledge and practices — will lead to a thriving local economy and, more importantly, to a vibrant ecological region responsible for absorbing 9.75 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide per year in the Amazon Basin alone.
The Colombian Amazon Basin is responsible for approximately 2.125 billion metric tons of this absorption.
Most of the funding for these initiatives comes from the Calanoa Eco-Lodge, but your support is always needed and deeply appreciated.
Your visit to Calanoa already contributes to these projects, but your donation — in any form or amount — allows us to go even further. Together, we can protect the Amazon and honor its guardians for generations to come.
